BILL HISTORY
2009
Mar. 9 Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
Feb. 20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
Feb. 19 Read first time. To print.

Note that the new information is at the top of the Bill History list.

Right now, the interesting line is "Feb. 20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22". Assembly rules require a bill to be in print for 30 days before it can be acted on - hearings and votes are 'actions'.

The "March 22" thing is actually off; the ASM Pub S Committee meets on Tuesdays, so the first Tuesday 30 days after Feb 20 is March 24. That's the first date anything can happen 'of record'.

It is possible for an author to amend a bill within this 30 days, so what we see as introduced may not be what a committee sees at first consideration. Such an amended bill should also appear on this Bill Page.

Here's the bill text as introduced (snipped for length)

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BILL NUMBER: AB 357 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT

INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Knight

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

An act to amend Section 12050 of the Penal Code, relating to
firearms.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 357, as introduced, Knight. Firearms: license to carry
concealed firearm.
Existing law authorizes the sheriff of a county, upon proof that
the person applying is of good moral character, that good cause
exists, and that the person applying satisfies any one of certain
conditions, as specified, to issue a license for the person to carry
a concealed handgun, as specified.
This bill would delete the good cause requirement, and require the
sheriff to issue the license if the other criteria described above
are met.
By imposing additional duties on local law enforcement agencies,
this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Section 12050 of the Penal Code is amended to read:
12050. (a) (1) (A) The sheriff of a county, upon proof that the
person applying is of good moral character , that good cause
exists for the issuance, and that the person applying
satisfies any one of the conditions specified in subparagraph (D) and
has completed a course of training as described in subparagraph (E), may shall issue to that person a
license to carry a pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of
being concealed upon the person in either one of the following
formats:

The Legislative Counsel's Digest is the summary of the bill prepared by someone not the author; it's meant to be a neutral statement.

There are three conventions in the typography.

When the bill is introduced, anything in 'normal' type is the law as it exists already; the point is to show how changes would fit into the existing text.

Where the text is reproduced in strikeout type, that text is in the law as it currently stands and would be deleted in this bill.

EXAMPLEtext that looks like this is something that is in the law but that the current version of the bill would eliminate or change

Where text is reproduced in italic type, that text is new, and would be added by the bill.

EXAMPLEItalic text is NEW STUFF added to the law or added to the previous version of the law as printed in the bill

The tricky thing here is that once there are amendments, that strikeout/italic convention refers to the previous version of the bill. The first set of strikeout parts will be gone, the first set of italic will be normal text, and only the amended text will be in strikeout/italic form.

Now, look at a bill that has made it all the way through to be law - SB 23

This bill page has sections for Analyses of the bill, prepared for each version/amendment. Those can be entertaining.

It has a section for Votes, in committee and for the whole House.

And it has two major status lines:Enrolled means it passed both houses of the Legislature and was sent to the Governor.

Chaptered means the Governor signed it (or it went into effect without his signature), and it's law as of the effective date of the bill or the following January 1, if no 'urgency' specified a date.

Librarian

03-11-2009 12:31 PM

Keeping up

There is a Bill Index - one for each house. All it has is Author/Bill Number/Topic.

Later on there will be a Table of Sections Affected but the one available 1/10/11 is from last session. That will indicate what sections will be changed; until the new numbering is implemented, most things of interest to Calgunners change something in the range 12000 - 12999

New Numbering in general:
PART 6. CONTROL OF DEADLY WEAPONS
TITLE 1. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
16000. This act recodifies the provisions of former Title 2
(commencing with Section 12000) of Part 4, which was entitled
"Control of Deadly Weapons." The act shall be known and may be cited
as the "Deadly Weapons Recodification Act of 2010."

TITLE 2. WEAPONS GENERALLY
DIVISION 1. MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO WEAPONS GENERALLY
17500. Every person having upon the person any deadly weapon,
with intent to assault another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

TITLE 3. WEAPONS AND DEVICES OTHER THAN FIREARMS
DIVISION 1. BB DEVICES
19910. Every person who sells any BB device to a minor is guilty
of a misdemeanor.

TITLE 4. FIREARMS
DIVISION 1. PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
23500. The provisions listed in Section 16580 shall be known and
may be cited as "The Dangerous Weapons Control Law."
etc, etc.

Public Safety
JURISDICTION: Bills amending the following: a) Evidence Code, relating to criminal procedure. b) Penal Code. c) Statutes of a penal nature not related closely to a subject included in another subdivision of this rule. d) Bills relating to the Youth and Adult Corrections Agency.

Appropriations
JURISDICTION: Bills that are subject to Joint Rule 10.5 and are not referred to the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee. Bills that constitute a state-mandated local program.

Appropriations
Committee Jurisdiction: Primary jurisdiction is fiscal bills, including bonds and alternative public financing.
Appropriations is a step a bill must pass through if there are any fiscal - $$ - effects. Usually they don't care about content otherwise.

It's important to refer to the current page for a committee to get contact information - membership changes sometimes during the session.

(Note you can construct your own link - "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=" is fixed, "201320140AB48" is 2013 2014 0 AB48, that is, first year of session, second year of session, perhaps a 'filler' 0, and the bill number.)

Just Section 1 has enough text to show the formatting.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.
Section 16740 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

16740. (a) As used in this part, “large-capacity magazine” means any ammunition feeding device with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, including

OLD text, already in the Penal Code, is plain text, black.

This shows NEW text in BLUE ITALIC..

, but shall not be construedlimited to include any of the following:, a readily restorable disassembled large-capacity magazine and an oversize magazine body that appears to hold ....

This shows DELETED text as RED STRIKEOUT.

Librarian

10-20-2012 5:01 PM

Numbering update:

With the 2012 renumbering, the Penal Code looks like

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Penal Code - PEN
TITLE OF THE ACT
THE PENAL CODE OF CALIFORNIA
PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680]
PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681 - 1620]
PART 3. OF IMPRISONMENT AND THE DEATH PENALTY [2000 - 10007]
PART 4. PREVENTION OF CRIMES AND APPREHENSION OF CRIMINALS [11006 - 14315]
PART 5. PEACE OFFICERS' MEMORIAL [15001 - 15003]
PART 6. CONTROL OF DEADLY WEAPONS [16000 - 34370]

ARTICLE 1. Armed Criminal Action
25800
ARTICLE 2. Crime of Carrying a Loaded Firearm in Public
25850
ARTICLE 3. Peace Officer Exemption to the Crime of Carrying a Loaded Firearm in Public
25900-25925
ARTICLE 4. Other Exemptions to the Crime of Carrying a Loaded Firearm in Public
26000-26060
ARTICLE 5. Loaded Firearm in a Motor Vehicle
26100

CHAPTER 4. License to Carry A Pistol, Revolver, or Other Firearm Capable of Being Concealed Upon the Person
26150-26225

ARTICLE 1. Crimes Relating to Sale, Lease, or Transfer of Firearms
27500-27590
ARTICLE 2. Exceptions Relating to Law Enforcement
27600-27615
ARTICLE 3. Exceptions Extending Only to Waiting Period
27650-27670
ARTICLE 4. Exceptions to Restrictions on Delivery of a Firearm
27700-27750
ARTICLE 5. Exceptions to the Requirement of Obtaining a Verification Number
27805-27835
ARTICLE 6. Exceptions to the Requirement of Using a Dealer for a Private Party Firearms Transaction
27850-27966
ARTICLE 7. Report to Department of Justice
28000

CHAPTER 5. Procedure For a Private Party Firearms Transaction
28050-28070

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions Relating to the Register or the Record of Electronic or Telephonic Transfer
28100-28110
ARTICLE 2. Form of the Register or the Record of Electronic Transfer
28150-28180
ARTICLE 3. Submission of Fees and Firearm Purchaser Information to the Department of Justice
28200-28250
ARTICLE 4. Firearms Safety and Enforcement Special Fund
28300
ARTICLE 5. Exceptions Relating to Law Enforcement
28400-28415
ARTICLE 6. Centralized List of Exempted Federal Firearms Licensees
28450-28490